Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-11-03

PERRY KING and Drew Greene, negroes,
were lynched at Tallulah, La, for at
tempting TO commit burglary.
CHARLES J.. PHILLIPR, President of the
defunct Columbian Bank of Philadelphia,
sailed for France Saturday morning from
New York, his purpose being, as alleged.
to escape criminal prosecution for mis-
management of the bank
An attempt was made Gunday morning
to rob the First National Bank at Aling
don, Ill. Cracksmen blew off the outer
doors of the vaults with dynamite, but the
safe doors resisted their efforts.
SATURDAY night at Maytown, KY,
party of moonshiners attempted to assas
sinate United States Deputy Marshal W
T. Day, who kept the party at bay with
double barreled gun.
MCCLELLAN, San Francisco pugilist,
recently fought with negro canal dig
ger, at Las Cascades, Columbia, and re-
ceived such injuries that he died a few
days later.
MASKED highwayman halted a stage
coach near Redding, Cal, and when the
stage horses became frightened and
started to rua the ropber fired, killing
passenger, Y. I. Henderson, a prominent
citizen of Adm, Cal. Armed parties are
out in search of the robber
LEADING officials of the Fidelity bank
of Cincinnati have been indicted for VIC
lation of the -at-large governing
the national banks, and for fraud Miss
Josie Holmes, private secretary of Vice
President Harper, has been arrested and
lodged in jail.
VANDALIA, Ill. Sheriff Washburn re-
ceived a telegram from Windsor, Mo.
notifying him of the recapture of Alfred
Cannon, the child murderer, who jumped
from a moving train near Sedalia while
en- route from Rich Hill, Mo.
Perry Ac1ELs catered the Office of May
or j. O. French, at Maxwell, Iowa, and
shot and killed him. Then he shot T. B.
Schneider but not fatally, and after pur-
suing Others turned and shot himself, dy-
ing Immediately. Maxwell IS a small
place in Story county.
DTABoLIoAL attempt was made at
Paris, Mich, to cremate party of thirty
Italian railroad leborers who we're asleep
in a lodging house. The building was
fired and its doors were baracaded, but all
the inmates escaped. The murderous in
cendiaries were another party of laborers
who had quarrel with those in tbs burn
ed lodging house.
AT Dubuque, Iowa, Sunday night, Mrs.
Block daughter of the late Hon. ID. 5.
Wilson. was chloroformed and robbed of
valuable iewelry. The burglars had sew
eral hundred dollars worth of silverware
ready to carry off, but for some reason
decamped without it.
FRANK GERNIGoN, a barber at Cairo, H.,
tried to kill his wife Monday by shooting
her, and then made several desperate at
tempts TO commit suicide. He cut his
throat with a razor, stabbed himself with
pair of shears, hacked his head with a
Ratchet, and then jumped into a cistern.
He survived all his exertions, and was
taken to the hospital. His wife may re-
cover. Jealousy.
IsHPEMING, Mich. Charles Williams and
Jim Conkey engaged in a drunken fight
in q lumber camp thirteen miles north of
this city. Williams was getting the bet
ter OF the fight, when Conkey stabbed
him twice In the left side. Williams is in
the hospital and will die. Conkey was
arrested.
CoNv1crs in the penitentiary at Yuma,
N. %, hll6ulpttQ To cSNdHts a AAlt PMS
oner snatched pistol frsm an escaping
criminal, and with it killed a man who
held and was stabbing the superintend-
ent of the institution. None of the con
spirators escaped, but two of them were
killed end three wounded, one fatally.
The superintendent was badly hurt.
MRs. K. II. MCDoNALD, JR., whose at
tempo to kill her father-in-law, the presi-
dent of the Pacific bank, in San Francis
co, caused big sensation in that city
about q week ago, was given a prelimin
airy examination yesterday on the charge
of assault with intent to commit murder,
and was held 20 answer in the some of
$4,000 bail
A NAS giving the name of Keyser is
said TO have swindled banker James
Dockery, of Rockford Mich, out of
large amount, purchasing the business
and giving bogus securities. Keyser at
tempted to work 0lmstead Storms. Of
Galesburg, Mich, on the same plan, but
failed at the supreme moment. John 5.
Danford, the notorious bank roboev, is
said 70 be Keyser's partner in his scheme.